John Calvin Quotes
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
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Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
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Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.
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As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
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Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its 'inevitability,' want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.
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He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.
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Nature never makes excellent things, for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be conceived, that our infinitely wise Creator, should make so admirable a Faculty, as the power of Thinking, that Faculty which comes nearest the Excellency of his own incomprehensible Being, to be so idlely and uselesly employ'd, at least 1/4 part of its time here, as to think constantly, without remembering any of those Thoughts, without doing any good to it self or others, or being anyway useful to any other part of Creation.
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In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
